The Black Pilgrimage (with Jane Nicholls)Who was Count Magnus? Notes towards an identificationJames Wilson’s Secret (with Jane Nicholls)Hostanes MagusTwo Magicians: Wilsthorpe and Aswarby (with Darroll Pardoe)‘I’ve see it’: ‘A School Story’ and the House in Berkeley SquareThe Night Raven‘A Wonderful Book’: George MacDonald and ‘The Ash Tree’Hercules and the Painted ClothThe Demon in the Cathedral: A Jamesian HoaxThe Herefordshire of ‘A View from a Hill’ (with Darroll Pardoe)How did Mr. Baxter find his Roman VillaThe Manuscript of ‘A Warning to the Curious’The Three Fortunate Concealments‘The Heathens and their Sacrifices: The God(s) of ‘An Evening Entertainment’‘The Old Man on the Hill: Beelzebub in ‘An Evening’s Entertainment’‘I seen it wive at me out of the winder’: The Window as Threshold in M. R. James’s Stories‘Fluttering Draperies’: The Fabric of M. R. JamesScrying and the Horse-demonThe Date of ‘Merfield Hall/ House’Adventures of a Jamesian DetectiveThe Man in King William StreetM. R. James and Arthur MachenM. R. James and the ‘native of Winsconsin’Introduction to Eton and Kings (with Darroll Pardoe)Introduction to The Five JarsAfterword to Two Ghost Stories: A Centenary‘Strange Pastures’: Introduction to Occult SciencesIntroduction to Tales from Lectoure

Remembrances of Early Fandom and Old FanzinesEarly Reading: Dogs, Cats and Hobby HorsesPhil Rickman and Gwendolen McBrideThe Real Thing: Garner, Lindholm, Brust and PratchettPaul Cornell’s ‘Shadow Police’Jack Finney and the Disappearance of Rudolph FentzWraiths don’t show up on CCTV (except when they do)Creatures which frequent the roads and byways of AmericaThe Magic of Maps

Frequently mentioned worksAn Index to Story and Novel Titles

Blurb:
THE GHOSTLY WORK OF M.R. JAMES

The celebrated writer M.R. James (1862-1936) is arguably the most significant author of ghost stories in the world. His macabre work has terrified and fascinated readers for over a hundred years. Now collected in one volume, here are twenty-nine essays on his ghostly tales and themes by editor and James scholar Rosemary Pardoe.

Plus eight further essays on other authors, including Fritz Leiber, E.G. Swain and Manly Wade Wellman, and a fascinating miscellany of nine additional pieces on a variety of topics.

Rosemary Pardoe is a respected essayist and has edited the influential M.R. James-related magazine Ghosts & Scholars since 1979. She also edited three volumes of The Ghosts & Scholars Book of Shadows (Sarob Press), and is the co-editor of Ghosts and Scholars: Stories in the Tradition of M.R. James (with Richard Dalby, 1987) and Warnings to the Curious: A Sheaf of Criticism on M.R. James (with S.T. Joshi, 2007).